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Re: how does max-filesize work over http?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:53:53 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Alexey A. Rybak wrote:

> But from the "physical" point of view I can't understand why we just can't
> stop downloading when the size of HTTP response becomes greater than the
> limit?

It could do that, but the option is for preventing the download to start in
the first place not to stop transfer after a given size.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2008-09-21